"Clearly this bill's supporters are hoping that President-elect Trump will have the chance to pack the US Supreme Court with justices that are poised to overturn Roe vs. Wade," Kellie Copeland, the executive director of the abortion-rights group NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, said in a statement. "We must prevent that from happening to protect women's lives."

"This bill would effectively outlaw abortion and criminalize physicians that provide this care to their patients."

Kasich's press secretary, Emmalee Kalmbach, declined to comment on whether he would sign the bill, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

He could also line-item veto the part of the bill banning abortion, The Dispatch reports, with Kathy DiCristofaro, the chair of the Ohio Democratic Women's Caucus, describing the abortion ban as being "tacked on as a last-minute amendment" to a bill addressing child-abuse prevention.